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ask-spiderpool · 1 year

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Hey. I have. A thing for you. It's not very related to the blog and I actually debated for quite a while if it was worth it to send it. But. Well I did draw this because of your blog. so. enjoy?

[ID/ A collection of three panels sketched in purple featuring DP with various Muppets.

In the first one DP sits in the theatre booth between Statler and Waldorf. He's barely able to fit in the booth, his legs folded to his chest. He sighs dreamily exclaiming "Don't you guys [caps] love [/caps] a happy ending?" as he accidentally tips his popcorn bag over Statler and himself.

In the second he enthusiastically poses in a frilly dress while holding Miss Piggy with one hand. She says "Honey, you're too [caps] eager [/caps], you have to let them chase you", to which he responds "But I [caps] crave [/caps] the attention....!"

In the last one DP seductively leans on the table while Kermit signs a contract. DP rambles "This morning I [caps] throughly [/caps] prepared myself for this. / Took out the [caps] big [/caps] toys. / Didn't want you to be the only one with [hidden by Kermit's speech bubble] up your [hidden]". Kermit speaks over him to someone out of frame "Is it too late to cancel this?" /End ID]

And a cuddle!!

[ID/ A sketch in the same style of Spider-Man hugging DP like a koala, his legs stretched at DP's sides. Spider-man smiles happily as he lays his head against DP's, but DP's expression is unknown since he's only shown from the back /End ID]

#ask-spiderpool #deadpool #spiderman #spideypool #submission #described #the Muppets #trasnoarts #<- that's my art tag though this is not my art blog #in case you decide to post it #mod's tags ->#AAHHH...#i need wade and ms piggy to be best friends. they would be best friends. yes sir they would.#wade and peter Are so ms piggy and kermit coded it is ridiculous #also i stared at the second image for So Long you have no idea #hough... i lvoe them..#fanart

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herschelkrustofsky · 4 months

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AID FOR PALESTINE. 🇵🇸 🍉

✨ hey heeeey! i'm sid, audhd, 28, irish-canadian & bi + genderfluid. they/them and he/him pronouns preferred. as you may have guessed, my biggest and most consistent special interest is horror, so you'll be seeing a lot of that here! i tag everything i can, so don't be afraid to approach me if you need anything specific blacklisted! mutuals are free to ask for my discord. ♡

other fun links include my ao3, pinterest & spotify! i also have an 18+, lgbt+ simpsons discord server; you can find out more about it here!

(side note: you may remember me as @arttheclown! i recently moved blogs for personal reasons, but can assure you it’s really me :^) )

primary fandoms: the simpsons, terrifier, spawn, deep space 9, saw, yellowjackets, baldurs gate, the muppets, catscratch, gorillaz, miscellaneous horror / slashers, miscellaneous animation. my full list of favourite movies can be found here & my comfort character tag can be found here.

other interests: cinema, creative writing, media studies, psychology, sociology, speculative fiction, clowning, music history, zoology, alternative subculture, cosplay, nails & makeup, DYI projects (especially clothing & accessories).

DNI: racists / terfs / transphobes / nazis / zionists, pro-police / pro-military, pedophilia and incest shippers, hazbin hotel fans, harry potter fans, dreamsmp fans. i also politely request minors not to interact and will softblock!

thank you for reading & enjoy your stay!!!

#relevant tags:#sid’s caps 🤡 🌈#sid’s hcs 🤡 🌈#sid’s stuff 🤡 🌈#sid’s meta 🤡 🌈#fave

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drakaiyus · 3 years

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Hey muppet, Kezi here again. I wondered if you could tell me more about the AU's you safeguard here? I'd love to know more. ^-^

Oh! Well most of them are in the works and need some extra stuff but I can tell you about em!

First up is "DevoidTale"(that's the clinic I talked about previously)

It's an AU that was once like any other, it even has A nervous wreck of a skeleton scientist named Webbie(Webster/Webdings). It revolves around her and how her AU had once thrived....but then Gaster fell and with him went everyone else, Leaving webbie afraid and alone.

There's an ominous twist tho. When everyone was erased alongside Gaster(Like Asriel and chara who hadn't died in the AU) they all left behind a white(Colorless), expressionless husk that stood frozen in the last pose they made when they were erased. (Basically frozen in time)

It's like mirror realm almost, Except Webbie is the only still living person on one side. Webbie can only see small glimpses of "Mirror realm" sometimes but she only chocks it up to being insanity driven from loneliness and silence.

Webbie hates this reality, and being a scientist, she got an idea. Vagely similar to handplates or X-tale Cross(except w/o the abuse) she wants to rebuild her timeline by using leftover DNA and DT from the Dust she'd gathered. She even cut holes in her hands(like Handplates gaster) to try and copy his method so that she could have a family of her own. She's very lonely but still very sweet and shy.

2nd is "Shattertale"

It's an AU that's really rather dark(it most likely to never be a comic, seeing as the AU can be gory and graphic.) It's mostly about A skeleton(not a sans) named Lazy and the story of her dark origins and what she was supposed to be. It does have other "slice of life" POV of 1 or 2 different chatacters and their life stories too.

The main plot is centered Around Lazy and how she tries to escape being what she was intended to be.(again, like 1-s and 2-p in handplates) it's prophesied that someone that fits her description is supposed to Defeat the king, a Dictator like centaur version of Asgore that rules with an iron fist

I cant go into too much detail because, again, it's a bit too graphic yet so that AU is something that wont be revealed fully yet.

3rdly is the "Tiny hands" Fic AU which centers aroun the monster getting to the surface and Sans's mental Journey to adapt to life and overcome his past(that's the Headcanon thing I have pinned on this blog)

The AU will be split into two Arcs that I'm still deciding whether to make into a comic.(I'll definitely Write it as a fic somewhere first tho once I find the time to do it)

Aaaannd that should be the main 3 AUs, they are WIPs currently but one of these days they'll be finished.

Thank you for asking!

Love- Muppet

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may-shepard · 7 years

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Hey I was just reminded of talalay's tweet and I know she might not know of a special or the writers' intentions but her words annoyed me... it makes me feel like they dislike us, but if she thinks so i don't understand some of her directing in tst (like sherlock being revealed in the chair and mary=thatcher smashed). How do you interpret this whole thing, if you don't mind me asking? P.s. I loved your the ring meta!

Hi!

Thanks so much for the compliment about my meta!

I only just learned about Rachel Talalay’s comment. I’m guessing you’re referring to this?

I would say it’s worth disregarding, as is anything any creator has to say about work they’ve released into the world.

Before I explain further, I just want to say that this in no way reflects any feelings or thoughts I have about Talalay’s skill as a director. I’m rewatching tst right now, and I think it’s very beautiful in many ways, despite the reservations I have about its reality status / the script / that wife / how we’re supposed to understand the episode. There’s nothing, I think, in the way it’s directed that gets in the way of the story that’s being told, and it has its own gorgeous qualities (that shark transition at the beginning is just...wow, really lovely.)

As for her comment, ugh. It was offered, it seems, spontaneously, in the context of answering a much more straightforward question about how a particular scene was filmed in Doctor Who, so it was unnecessary, to say the least. Now, I don’t know, I have no idea what has been said to her. I don’t know how much she’s had to deal with people coming at her for things over which she has no control, like the overall direction of the show. I don’t much care, tbh. Because I think that if you’re going to engage in social media interactions with people, you need to be cool about it. You should try to be gracious. Understand that people are excited about what you’ve made, which is, like, the point of making it? Isn’t it?

The main thing for me is, I’ve been on both sides of the creator / critic spectrum, professionally as a writer (on a really small scale), and academically as a literary scholar (at the highest level one can go). So I’ve thought about literary interpretation a lot, and thought a lot about its role, relative to literature itself. Here’s what I know:

When people make a thing, a creative thing, they pull on all kinds of stuff of which they may or may not be aware. It’s an art. There’s planning, and there’s purpose, and there’s the story they know they want to tell, and then there’s serendipity, and the intuitive ways in which symbolism builds, and there’s the mass of art and literature that came before yours, there’s the direct source material (acd canon) and there’s indirect source material (the tons and tons of Holmesian pastiche); there’s tradition (like the Gothic); there are brands (Hammer horror, Bond, and, weirdly, the Muppets). It all goes into the mix, and out comes a thing that works, or doesn’t.

This is why authorial intention is garbage as a concept: because literary texts are made from a combination of conscious and unconscious content.

And this is why all creator commentary about what they meant to do, or didn’t, is rubbishy bullshit at best. Ideally, I think, a creator should ask, “What did you think of it?” Rather than, proclaiming, “Oh, that’s not what I meant.”

(I know, I know. We want there to be a plan. We want johnlock to be part of the consciously crafted content of the show. I obviously do. I want mofftiss to be good. I want them to be clever. I want the clearly inferior quality of s4 to be part of a meta-level Reichenbach arg. I hope it is. But even if it isn’t, even if they meant tfp to be a totally straightforward end to s4 and possibly the series as a whole, there is still much we can do in terms of reading it, interpreting it, enjoying it. This is not reaching. The subtext is practically hanging off the text like ripe fruit, begging to be picked.)

It is up to the critic, the literary analyst, the audience, to decide what the thing they’re consuming means to them. The symbols, tropes, character arcs, plots, etc., etc., which the creator has put together--all of this interacts with you, your personal experience, the other texts you’ve enjoyed, the symbols, tropes, plots, etc., that are part of your cultural experience, and there, in you, is where they make meaning.

You can emerge from the experience of a text and say, this is what it means, and interpret it in light of what you know, and what you’ve felt, and back it up using the textual evidence that made you think what you did, and no one--that is to say NO ONE--can tell you you’re wrong. They can tell you they think there’s a better reading. They can tell you they think yours has holes in it. You can, if you wish, engage in discussion about it. But you don’t have to. Above all, you should do what makes you happy. This is supposed to be fun--which, it seems, is something that Talalay, with her snarky comment about “rationality,” seems to have forgotten.

Nonetheless, for those of us who do choose to craft arguments out of our favourite readings of this, or any literary text:

There are good interpretations--ones that really hold water when you interrogate them and subject them to argumentation. There are less valid interpretations--ones that fall apart if you so much as breathe on them.

Johnlock is a valid interpretation. It is as solid as granite. It has a metric fuckton of evidence backing it up. The only thing it doesn’t have, right now, is an explicit confirmation from the text that satisfies much of the audience who supports that interpretation. (Right now, there’s sort of a johnlock light reading we can glean from the most superficial level of the text. In my opinion, there’s a much more intense johnlock reading possible via the subtext.)

There are, of course, other readings. Of course there are! But let me tell you, having had a run-in or two with the dude who made that anti-tjlc blog, WELL, he is far from rational. He transforms into a squalling infant if you so much as push on one of his ideas. And then tells you you’re bullying him. Methinks he enjoys being fighty.

THE BOTTOM LINE IS: Once a creator has released something into the world, their role is done. It’s then up to the audience to take the thing and run with it. I am so glad--SO GLAD--to be part of a fandom that voraciously consumes, analyzes, critiques, and otherwise shakes the thing we love until all the best bits and pieces fall out. That’s the fun of it! For a creator to turn around and say, NO! You’re loving the thing I made in the wrong way--well, that is really small.

So: thanks for this ask, sorry to go on for so long but I have LOTS of feelings about this, clearly.

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celticnoise · 7 years

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Last night was stupendous, and not just for Celtic.

Last night was stupendous for Scottish football too, not that some of the hacks are writing that.

Ewan Murray wrote today of how bad this result is for our game; tell that to the SPL chairmen whose clubs live a hand-to-mouth existence and for whom the £250,000 that will be coming their way will be very welcome.

They would probably strong disagree.

Last night, over in La La Land the Sevconuts went from predicting we’d lose the game to moaning about how poor Astana were. We will, of course, get no credit from that quarter. One hilarious exchange had one guy muse that we “look no better than last season” to which one of his brethren responded “oh no better than the team which won a treble unbeaten domestically. That’s a relief. We probably have nothing to worry about then.”

Their pain is palpable. I’ll be reflecting on what the result means for them – I’ll give you a clue; nothing good haha – later on … but they are clinging to many straws as they try to find a way to make it look better than it is.

Many are predicting that the Champions League Groups will see “embarrassment” come our way.

These muppets really are too dumb for words.

Our result last night has helped them in co-efficient terms.

Over the next couple of years the system is due to change, making individual achievements mean more than the national average, and for that they should be on their knees thanking us because this year’s score will go on the record and it will help them more than they ever helped themselves.

Because, of course, there’s no “embarrassment” in us going somewhere like Barcelona and losing; better teams than us will. The embarrassment has already happened. It happened to other Scottish clubs. In particular, it happened to theirs.

Not for them the Group Stages of anything … the Luxembourgers took care of that. That’s real embarrassment. That’s the costly kind too. That’s the kind that will be hitting, like a hammer, their chances of a seeding and their chances of ever getting their hands on that pot of gold far into the future.

We will give them a modest hit, and a nice chunk of change.

They should be grateful for both and for something else too; we keep Scottish football in the sunny uplands. Their own credibility is shot. The national team is a flopping like wet clown feet. Teams like St Johnstone don’t even do self-analysis when they are beaten by European football’s sup-par dreck; they shrug it off as if it was nothing. They don’t even feel the shame of it, and that’s disgraceful. And it’s why these sides will never get any better.

Too many teams in this country simply don’t care and harbour no ambition whatsoever.

For example, the price Kilmarnock will pay for the retrograde step of hiring Lee McCulloch will be enormous, and I sincerely hope measured in a relegation. They’re out of the League Cup and have lost the first two matches of the campaign, and on Saturday they have us to look forward to. It’s not impossible – it’s not even unlikely – that they will be bottom come the close of business. That’s where they belong for such dire decision making.

There’s no helping these clubs, they can only help themselves and they show no sign at all of either wanting to or knowing how.

It is to our immeasurable credit that we’ve built a club capable of getting a result like last night whilst surrounded by this.

Our victory and the money that every club will get as a result is a gift they frankly don’t deserve.

This is not a criticism that can levelled at them all; the three clubs which have clearly been making positive strides, or trying to, Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen, have had varying degrees of success. Aberdeen are clearly a club going in the right direction; ironically, I still believe it’s the manager many credit with that who is their biggest liability. But he has assembled a heck of a squad, capable of beating anyone else in Scotland on their day.

European football has proved a step up for them … but I think they’ve been dreadfully unlucky with their draws the last few years, all but this year where I think they had the beating of the Croats and can perhaps think themselves unlucky not to go through.

Hibs look tremendous. They, like Celtic, are a well-run club who have taken a chance on progressive managers with the right philosophy and they have reaped the rewards for it. Alan and Neil knew how to spot talent and get the best out of them … I think if Lenny is allowed the time and resources to get the job done they will be European regulars.

Hearts look a mess. But that’s because they took a risk on Ian Cathro, and you will not meet anyone outside of Scotland who does not think that was a risk worth taking. He was hamstrung, as Brendan says, by a ridiculous system where the manager doesn’t have full control.

Hey, rumour has it Ronny worked under a similarly daft scheme.

You’ve all seen the results of letting one man, the most important man, run the whole show … and if Hearts bring someone in who has the gravitas to insist on doing it all the way he wants to they will get there.

Until then, we’re flying the flag and we’re doing it alone.

It is not to us to drag Scottish football with us, but our success does benefit the game here regardless.

And yes we will move even further ahead than we are now, with this cash in the bank, but when you look how little ambition clubs like Kilmarnock have it would do them literally no good if we stood still, and even if we were going backwards some of them would be busily doing the same.

Celtic’s success was made at Celtic Park … but it was also made in Scotland and I would hope that Scotland would be proud of that fact.

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mikeyd1986 · 7 years

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MIKEY’S PERSONAL BLOG 63, August 2017

On Monday morning, I went to my Healthy Cooking on a Budget class at Balla Balla Community Centre in Cranbourne East. I spent the past week recovering from the flu and a nasty chest infection which meant I had to cancel and cut back on a lot of things, cooking being one of them. Whilst I’m still not quite 100% healthy yet, I felt well enough to attend today. Plus I really missed human interaction and engaging in pleasurable activities, learning new skills and making exciting meals.

When it comes to my mental illness, I firmly believe that exposure therapy is really an effective form of treatment. I’m slowly putting myself back out there in social environments. I worked with Kevin again today and felt a bit more comfortable in his presence. Today we made some rice paper rolls and sushi rolls. Preparing Asian vegetables 101...this was clearly foreign territory for me but I was willing to give it a go.

After washing the dirt off the stems and the leaves of the bok choy, I cut the ends off and started finely chopping it up into small pieces. The carrots, cucumber, capsicum and cabbage are also chopped into thin slices. Next we soaked a sheet of rice paper in a bowl of cold water just enough to wet it and then began layering the vegetables in a neat row across the middle of the rice paper sheet. Then you simply fold the edges inwards and roll it up.

The process with the sushi roll is quite similar except you start by boiling the rice and spreading it out across a nori sheet. Then you place the vegetables on top of the rice in the middle and using the sushi mat as a guide, roll the nori up tightly. You can then slice the sushi roll up into sections and serve with soy sauce. http://www.ballaballa.com.au/progra...

On Monday night, I attended my Foundation Meditation class at Brahma Kumaris Centre for Spiritual Learning, The Peninsula in Frankston South. It was really telling when I walked into the room and only saw five chairs with three people seated. Either a lot of people came down with the flu like myself or Angie has scared them off with her deep philosophical theories. I can understand that though because whilst I am curious, I’m also a skeptic.

Tonight we discussed the concept of The Tree of Humanity. This is basically a visual representation of our world history. Starting with the Golden Age at the base of the tree, this is when the first souls came from the Soul World in their most powerful and pure states. There was no negative karma. The first “man” and “woman” were born (see Adam and Eve). And since the Earth was yet to tilt on an axis, the climate was Spring-like all the time.

Next we have the Silver Age. This was not quite as perfect as the Golden Age. There was still no negative karma but there was a significant increase in population size. Everyone was in a soul conscious state. During the Copper Age, soul consciousness turned into body consciousness. This was the beginning of negative karma and the start of recorded history. It was also the birth of religions including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Hindu.

The Iron Age is the time we are currently living in. This is where we have the greatest darkness on Earth. Science and medicine are used to prolong life expectancy in an artificial way. And religions take on a different form including sports games, being at the gym. The Confluence Age overlaps both the Iron Age and the Golden Age. It also joins the souls up to the Supreme Soul. Finally, it provides the roots of the tree, giving it a firm foundation and the power to change consciousness. http://brahmakumaris.org.au/ways-to...

On Tuesday night, I went to my Body Combat class with Cinamon Guerin at YMCA Casey ARC in Narre Warren. Considering I haven’t been to a combat class in three weeks and haven’t exercised all of last week due to being sick, I really hard to pull the reins in and lower my expectations. As expected, the fatigue hit quicker than normal and I found myself having to pull back and consciously remind myself to breathe during the workout.

The part I really struggled with involved doing a kick combo with a side step. I just got myself uncoordinated and lost a few times but that’s okay. I was trying and doing my best which is all that matters. I never aim for perfection but I do try really hard no matter how fatigued I’m feeling. Cinamon was positive and encouraging as always. The thing I really admire about her is that she’s able to laugh at herself if she makes a mistake, proving that fitness instructors are human too. https://www.lesmills.com/workouts/f...

On Wednesday morning, I had my Strength Training session with Luke Davey at Breakaway Fitness in Berwick. In a lot of ways, I saw today’s session as hitting the reset button and creating a more positive space for myself. In order to do that, I had to lower my expectations and be kinder to myself. That meant being comfortable in the silence and not being hard on myself whenever I’m not understanding what Luke is asking of me and if we don’t have much to talk about. That’s the true nature of acceptance. Being okay with what is.

WARM UP...Today I warmed up the muscles in my upper arms and shoulders by using a couple of different resistance straps. The first position was a bit tricky to get into. Placing the loop of the strap underneath the sole of my foot, I then had to wrap my arm behind me and lift my elbow over my head whilst raising my back foot and then pressing it down. But once I got it, it felt really good.

DEVELOPMENT...Once again I did my bench press workout, doing 5 rounds of 1 rep at 50kg. I was feeling much better about my performance today mainly because my thoughts and emotions weren’t getting in the way. My head was a lot clearer and so I could focus on what I was doing. I was trying hard to get my technique right, activating the various muscle groups and keeping that bar straight. My mantra today was...Struggle = Progress = Success.

I’m learning to see struggle as a strength rather than a weakness. It means I’m trying really hard to achieve my goals and succeed. My lifting technique certainly wasn’t perfect but it didn’t matter. I fucking did it, that’s what matters. And Luke was spotting me the entire time so I was in safe hands and I was able to relax more. I used the resting time effectively by concentrating on my breath and practicing muscle activation to prepare for each lift.

We ended the session by doing 3 rounds of 10 single arm dumbbell rows at 20kg. This is where I was starting to sweat and fatigue a bit but again I didn’t let it bother me today. Just focus on the movement, keeping that elbow locked in close to my body. Counting reps isn’t exactly my strong point though I did decide to get a bit creative with it. I imagined a Sesame Street inspired image of muppets holding a number of a blackboard for each rep I did. Hey, it works for me.

Luke told me that this exercise really helps with the development of my “lats” aka latissimi dorsi, which are the muscles located to the side of the upper back next to the arm. After my last session with Luke, I feel like things are slowly getting back on track for me. I’m learning to relax more and let go of worrying about what Luke’s thinking about me. I’m learning to take one session at a time and try not to overthink about what’s happening around me. I’m learning to find balance in my life rather than cramming too many things into one basket and burning myself out as a result. https://www.facebook.com/breakawayf...

On Thursday morning, I went to a Gentle Hatha Flow yoga class at Just Be Yoga and Meditation in Beaconsfield. I can’t believe that it’s been four months since I’ve been to this yoga studio. Part of it has been financial difficulties but also spreading my wings and trying out different places to do yoga in. I have no regrets or guilt about this despite the fact that I’ve been loyal to Just Be for about 6 years or so. I feel like the door will always remain open for me, no matter how frequently I attend classes here.

I have to admit that I really did miss the studio and Dell Brown as my yoga teacher. Today was all about finding connection with myself. Michelle talked about a concept called Pratyahara aka Sensory Withdrawal, which is basically turning your awareness inward by closing your eyes and focusing on your breath during the practice. This helps to shift your focus away from distracting thoughts and towards being mindful in each yoga pose. https://yogainternational.com/artic...

We did a series of flowing sequences, balances and stretches including: Seated spinal twists, Seated side stretches, Downward facing dog, Cobra pose, Arm and Leg Balance, Cat-Cow pose, Tree pose, Low lunge, Standing Forward Fold, Half lift and Mountain pose. We ended the close by doing some supported Shoulder Stands using a blanket and a bolster into the wall. I’ve never really felt comfortable doing inversions like this but doing variations with props certainly makes them a lot easier and better for me. https://www.doyouyoga.com/top-5-hea...

“We gotta be bold. We gotta be brave. We gotta be free. We gotta get loud. Making that change. You gotta believe (woah). We'll look deep inside. And we'll rise up and shine. We can be bold. We can be brave. Let everyone see. It starts with you and me.” You and Me from the TV Movie Descendants 2 (2017)

“Tell me something, tell me anything. This distance grows in silence but the pain is deafening. So what are you thinking, where has your head been. Follow your tangled string and come back home to me.” Far Away Stables - Phase Shift (2017)

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junker-town · 7 years

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We tried to make Cristiano Ronaldo statues, and it was really hard

Here’s what we came up with.

Cristiano Ronaldo is arguably attractive. The bronze statue of his bust that made the internet lose its minds this week? Hilariously terrible. It didn’t look like the soccer star at all!

This reminded us of the time we here at SB Nation tried (and failed) to draw Tom Brady like a courtroom reporter, and wondered if we could make an even better representation of Ronaldo. It’s really the only way to honor one of the best soccer players in the world.

Here’s what we came up with, complete with explanations:

Cristiano Ronaldo by Matt Brown, 2017

“So, here’s the thing. The only thing I ever really learned how to do from 2nd grade art class was make muppet-lookin’ faces, so this interpretation of Ronaldo has a massive mouth, agape in wonder, which hey, might be how it he looks he if he’s upset about a call. I do feel like this particular model really captures the full majesty of Ronaldo’s magnificent hair, though.”

-Matt Brown

Cristiano Ronaldo by Brittany Cheng, 2017

“Cristiano Ronaldo is half man, half abdominal muscles. Forget his athleticism, this is Ronaldo — all eight parts of him (you’re welcome). Like the original sculptor, my creation pales in comparison to the real thing, but unlike the sculptor, I spent about 2 minutes, 18 seconds on this bad boy. And let’s be real: I only made this version of him so I can plug our personality quiz “Which Cristiano Ronaldo ab are you?” At least, I got the color right.”

-Brittany Cheng

Cristiano Ronaldo by Andi Cwieka, 2017

“I’ve never been an ‘art’ person. Or at least that’s what I thought, until this project was thrust upon me. As you can see here, I clearly have a knack for miniature model clay busts. As a sculptor with realism tendencies, I knew I wanted my bust to capture the Ronaldo’s pristine and quintessential soccer haircut, his sharp, Cillian Murphy-esque cheekbones and quizzical brows. With a few deft rolls and presses of my sky blue sparkly clay, I was able to sculpt a near-perfect likeness. If you don’t see me blogging anymore, just know I have left to chase my dreams in model clay work.”

-Andi Cwieka

Cristiano Ronaldo by Pete Volk, 2017

“I came into this project with two goals: 1) use way more clay than anyone else and 2) use a color scheme that reflected Cristiano’s home country of Portugal. I succeeded in one of these two goals, but only because I was limited by the color palette available to me. But like most great artists of their time, I made the most of the limitations I was handed, and my work will likely remain unappreciated until my death. Also, I still think mine looks more like Cristiano than the original.”

-Pete Volk

Cristiano Ronaldo by James Dator, 2017

“I don’t work in an office like these fancypants people, so I didn’t have access to real clay. I did find a clay sculpting simulator online that I didn’t understand how to use or stop it from being mirrored. The venom sacs on the side of his face are supposed to be his chiseled jaw.”

-James Dator

Cristiano Ronaldo by Unknown, 2017

“I heard a moth flew in his eye once.”

-Unknown

Now it’s your turn. Grab some play-doh and show us your best Ronaldo statues!

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effywild · 7 years

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been a bit (a lot?) overwhelmed with a steady stream of terrifying/outrage-inducing no good terrible bad news lately. In the midst of *waves hands at all the things* I’ve been doing this dance, lately, between being ‘in here’ and ‘out there’. Some of my life’s hours are spent in outrage. Some are spent in my blanket fort with my lovely dog. Some are spent reading and retweeting. Some are spent listening to The Witching Hour by Anne Rice on Audible. Some are spent happily creating. Some are spent creating in a fit of frustrated weeping.

I dance. In here. Out there. Peace. Struggle. Outrage. Fierce love.

Cha-cha-cha.

For once in my life, ‘in here’ is pretty good. Lonely, but in a deliciously spacious, anticipatory way that I’ve never before experienced – like, this loneliness is a portal through which good things may emerge. Quiet. Peaceful. Full of my own ‘head down, do your own work’ type stuff. “Out there” is – well. You know.

The dance is good for me. It means I’m asking myself what I need on a regular basis. I find myself slamming the lap top shut and indulging in something soul-nourishing more and more often as a counter measure. I ask myself “what can I *actually* do”, and I do that to the best of my ability, and then I go do something else.

Christopher Penczak posted this on his Facebook Timeline today:

Remember despite a world of madness, life continues… People are mourning loved ones lost, getting diagnosed with serious illnesses, facing disasters, and filing for divorce. People are also falling in love, getting married, creating art, raising children, making new friends, playing music, having sex, advocating for their rights, and making magick. Remember to live.

I took a deep breath when I read that. It’s not like I need permission to do these things. I don’t. I’m a grown ass woman. But I do, occasionally, need *reminders* that I can do these things.

I like to remember to live ‘out loud’ in spaces like this, because I find myself emboldened by sharing. When I share, I feel safely gathered in to a tribe of witnesses. It also keeps me accountable if I call a thing I’m doing ‘a thing’ and I endeavour to do it habitually.This is how pretty much every community project I’ve ever created began.It all starts like this:

OH HEY! I want to do a thing, but I’ll probably drop it after five minutes because SQUIRREL, so I’m going to make it a thing, okay? If it’s a THING and I know you’re doing it with me, I’ll do it for longer than five minutes. Maybe not MUCH longer, but at least a little longer! So TADA! This is now a THING.

As a way of balancing my reaction to my news feed, I want to do a thing. A “Friday Five” type of thing. Five things that are rocking my life, every Friday. Some of the things will be me things. Some will be things I find out there in the world. All of them will be soul nourishing. They will be heart-centered, desire-led, pleasure-seeking, spirit-lifting.

Good things. Moving things. Things that restore my faith in humanity, or my faith in myself. Not because I’m one of the ‘positive police’ – I’m not, and anyone that knows me knows that I am a huge fan of being with all the things, including the deep dark scary stuff. So, no. This is not about spiritual bypass or whitewashing all of *waves at everything happening around her*. Rather, attending, at least for a few moments a week,to what’s *right*.

This feels somehow magical right now. It feels like I already attend to what’s not okay, like, all the time. I notice it, I call it out, I do what I can to counter it by creating safe spaces where people can share without fear of reprisal for feeling their feelings. But lately it feels a little bit like I’m in danger. Like I’ve swung all the way over to the omgdoomy side of things in my desperation to stay on top of it all, and that’s no way to live, right? Because in the midst of everything that’s going on, there are these lives we’re living.

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So. Friday Five. Here we go.

Thing One As someone who spent most of her life struggling with a serious self-care deficit, the preparation of beautiful food *for myself* even when there’s no one else to feed has been a hugely nourishing undertaking. When my marriage ended, I knew how to cook for a houseful of people, not ONE person, and so at first, I shopped like I used to, and cooked like I used to, and then threw out 3/4 of what I’d bought/cooked. In time, I lapsed into a habit of ordering in, which was okay, because I wasn’t wasting food anymore, and I wasn’t experiencing that horrible sadness I experienced when I realized I’d cooked enough for an army of mouths and bellies for no reason other than I had no idea how to cook for one.

Shortly after I moved to my new apartment, I signed up for a service* that delivers raw ingredients (everything you need except salt, pepper, olive oil, and occasionally a couple of eggs) and recipes for multiple meals a week. Serving sizes are healthy. Everything is, wherever possible, locally sourced and of the highest possible quality. Everything is incredibly fresh. I opted in for four entrees per week, and I usually select at least two vegetarian options (to which I often add lean protein so I can make the recipe stretch a bit). This means that pretty much every day, I’m eating something beautiful and healthful, since each recipe makes 2 – 3 servings, and more if I add my own lean protein to the veggie recipes.

At least four times a week, you will find me in my kitchen, apron on, listening to an audio book or music (see Thing Two), doing my mise en place, shaking my booty, singing out loud. I sip Perrier Lime or Chardonnay. I cook, and then plate whatever I’ve cooked, photograph it, and sit down to eat. Mindfully. Slowly. Steak, sliced against the grain served with black garlic mashed potatoes and sauteed snow peas. Moussaka. Naan panini with bocconcini, roasted red pepper, and HOMEMADE PESTO. Caribbean sweet potato hash with honey glazed pork loin.

If I have a guest, they sit on a comfy bar chair I have in my kitchen so they can sip wine and talk to me while I cook. I plate for two, photograph the prettiest plate, and then we sit down to eat.

Every plate I create is a love letter to my body. Every meal I make is a Valentine.

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Chana Masala with Naan

Potato and Leek Galette

Panini with bocconcini and roasted vegetables with a basil & baby arugula pesto.

*Because I know you’ll ask, here’s where I get my food from.

Thing Two

Spotify. I love it. It has become a near daily companion. I love to create playlists, but my very favourite feature is “Discover Weekly” which is a new playlist created for me by Spotify every single Monday. You can find my profile here.

Thing Three

Couch art. Mmmmm. Especially now that I have a wee box of Jane D’s MM stuff, thanks to two shopping trips to Michael’s with coupons.

This wee girl (she’s about 7 x 10) was created with the INKredible pen, both of the watercolor palettes, the Mermaid Markers, and Magic Wands. I’ve also got some white acrylics paint in there (Golden Fluid). I have made a deal with myself that if I want to binge on something on Netflix, I have to have a journal spread on the go – not because I’m a tyrant, but because it is much more soul nourishing for me to multitask in this way.

Thing Four This post by Tanya Geisler that helped me feel a little less wobbly.

Thing Five

This new project by my lovely muppet, Sarah Trumpp, that is making my heart swell.

I hope you have a weekend that is full of your life. See you next week!

Friday Five If you're anything like me, you've been a bit (a lot?) overwhelmed with a steady stream of terrifying/outrage-inducing no good terrible bad news lately.

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dymaxionleedskalnin-blog · 7 years

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Happy New Year/Dress

Happy 2017, people! Here's a new dress that isn't the same dress I've made the last dozen times:

It's the Rushcutter by In The Folds, sewn up in fairly heavy denim. I enjoyed sewing it quite a bit (once I got the pattern taped together), but I enjoy wearing it immensely.

Here's the neck bit, isn't it nice?

Back zip, which I'm usually not a fan of, but this one is short so it's okay:

I used some patterned bias tape from Daiso to finish the neckline:

These pockets are HUGE. Really, really big:

Really:

They're set a little low on the dress so occasionally I have to stoop to get things out of the bottom of them, which I find equal parts annoying and hilarious. (When I sew this again I'll be putting a false bottom in the pocket somehow.)

This is a very, very comfortable dress, with a few caveats. First, the sleeves are a bit wide so they can get a bit jammed up in a coat. I sometimes have to do a quick 'wrap' of the sleeve around my arm before jamming my arm into the coat, to make sure that I don't end up with bulgy elbows.

Also, this is a dress that's much more comfortable standing than sitting, but that's probably because I overload the pockets (because I can, because they are HUGE). So if you also load your pockets like Harpo Marx, you too might have to do a little adjustment and pull the sides of the dress forward when sitting so that your heavy pockets don't fall weirdly down the sides of your chair. But it's a small price to pay!

I like wearing this with footless tights and sneakers, or regular tights and ankle boots. I've worn this with bright yellow tights several times thinking that someone will say “hey, in those tights your legs look just like MUPPET FLESH,” but no one has yet. Which is probably because most of my friends and acquaintances are tactful, kind people, but it's TRUE.

Oh, and the hem is faced, which is a treatment I always like, especially on heavy fabrics:

I have a few other dresses I've made during this last blogging hiatus, and the goal/resolution is to post one a week until I'm caught up. Wish me luck!

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celticnoise · 7 years

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A quite unhinged article on a Sevco fan site has attempted to cast a shadow over Celtic’s immortal unbeaten domestic campaign.

It is entitled “Lies, Damned Lies And Invincibles”.

At the end of it, the writer tackles the reaction he expects from us, “I’m sure Celtic fans will no doubt write this off as the ramblings of a bitter (Sevco) fan …” and he was right, of course, because that’s what the entirety of his article is, but if we left it at that it would be doing him a kindness his envy and spite doesn’t deserve.

So instead I thought I’d dismantle his idiot argument in its entirety.

He quotes Mark Twain’s oft repeated line about “lies, damned lies and statistics” and then guess what he does?

He uses statistics to cover his own damned lies.

Let’s start from the beginning.

He claims that Rangers’ treble winning season of 1992-93 was a better achievement, because the club went 44 games unbeaten “in all competitions”, including in Europe.

Fine, all well and good.

But here’s the kicker; as his article points out that 44 game run was sandwiched in between a defeat at Dens Park and a defeat against Celtic in the league. Which means – that’s right class, you can all put your hands down – that it wasn’t better at all.

In the league campaign, they actually lost four times. And drew five.

Which doesn’t come close to being anywhere near as good a season as the one we’ve just had.

His European claim – and it’s a fact, but still pretty specious – is that they were unbeaten there too. Indeed, this is the ridiculous campaign I often hear about as “proof” that they were “90 minutes away from a European Cup Final.”

It’s nonsense, and had they actually reached that final they would, easily, have been the most undeserving team ever to do so.

I remember that campaign; they beat Lyngby and then were drawn against VFB Stuttgart, for a place in the first ever group stages.

The Germans would have roundly thrashed them; no-one really doubts that.

But they were exited from the tournament after a “third game” was played, after they’d fielded an ineligible player.

So Rangers got Leeds instead, who were perhaps the poorest team to win the English top flight in the last 30 years, save perhaps for Blackburn’s side and they at least had Sutton and Shearer up front.

All credit to them, they beat Leeds both home and away, but that campaign was filled with moments of sheer luck like that.

They won two out of six games in the group – which was comprised of Marseille, CSKA Moscow and Brugge; good luck getting a Europa League group half as generous now – with one of the wins, against the Belgians, coming courtesy of an astoundingly fortunate goal at home, via Scott Nisbet where he hit a shot, that was speculative at best, it actually dipped, bounced on the turf and sailed over the keepers head.

Of those teams – and I include Leeds – only Marseille were able to compete with Rangers on anything like an even-handed financial basis.

Their treble was secured in Scotland against teams who didn’t have a tenth of their resources; yet we finished second that season having only lost one league match to their four.

Sadly, we also drew eleven of them.

But we came much closer to an Invincible run in the title race that year than they did.

The finance issue is important to recall here.

The argument this muppet is making is that we’re expected to win trebles with the money we have available to us.

Because the advantage in resources is crucial.

He’s right.

His own team outspent everyone that season, including most of their European opponents, and won a domestic treble like we just did.

Their debt, at the time, was £20 million.

He claims, in the piece, that he would have been confident of his own team winning a treble unbeaten with a £30 million wage bill.

Well, there were a lot of years in which they had exactly that and they didn’t accomplish it. With £20 million in debts from a £10 million turnover in that year, they must have been spending the equivalent of it then … and as we can see, they lost 4 times and drew another 5.

On top of that, as I’ve said, the financial differential between themselves and the teams they played in Europe was, in fact, in the case of all the clubs but the French, titled in their own favour. That was the summer they splashed out £2.4 million to sign an English international … from Marseille.

So they weren’t exactly outgunned at the time.

But of the games we did lose this season, one was to Lincoln Red Imps in Brendan’s first game in charge.

One was to Hapoel in Israel, after we’d won the first leg 5-2.

Two were to Barcelona, the heaviest being in Spain, where PSG were to fall in a heavy defeat the same season.

The last was probably the most damaging, the defeat at home against Monchengladbach.

Red Imps and Hapoel were our first and ninth games respectively; the pressure on the team was enormous in the latter of those games and the team was still adjusting to Brendan’s tactics and ultimately neither of those matches mattered as we secured safe passage in the ties.

The Barcelona defeats could have happened to anyone, and they did it to bigger teams than us as the season went on.

Gladbach was a bad one, that one hurt.

What doesn’t hurt a bit are the barbs from jealous jokers who on the one hand claim that our financial advantage shouldn’t count whilst hoping that their own would be ignored.

He claims credit for his teams European exploits, ignoring that the financial differential he talks about was even more pronounced, to our disadvantage, in our Champion s League group than ours disadvantaged the teams around us in the SPL.

And he claims that with our wages advantage over other clubs that a domestic unbeaten campaign was no big deal … although Rangers never managed to go unbeaten even in the league even once, in all the years when they had the benefit of a financial gap that was just as big, subsidised as it was by a friendly bank and then later by a tax fraud.

(We, in contrast, managed to come within one game of it in the year he’s talking about, and again in the Tommy Burns campaign of 1995-96.)

But the entire premise of his article is that our Invincible “unbeaten season” wasn’t invincible at all, and it’s here that he has used the stats to hide the unpalatable fact that he’s having such trouble, such desperate trouble, wrapping his brain around.

Nobody has ever claimed that it was.

He can ramble on all he likes about a “44 game unbeaten run in all competitions” but that’s not what we got the gong for.

I think we’ve been very clear that the achievement here was to go unbeaten in all of our domestic games so it is, if you’ll excuse me for being so harsh, utter pish and reeking of rampant jealousy, to try to suggest that somehow the accomplishment is invalidated by European defeats which the last I heard didn’t count towards that.

Does he want to include friendly matches in his count?

Bounce games between the Celtic squads?

How about Subbuteo matches or games on FIFA?

Are we including them in the qualification too?

Are there Football Manager players who’s performances we’re going to count?

Hey, I know the manager of the team he currently follows enjoys creating his own “mini-competitions” – we went unbeaten in that too, and even won the title – and perhaps that’s where he thinks a “44 game unbeaten run” matters more than the simple fact of going unbeaten in all your domestic matches, but you know, that’s not how it works in the real world.

The real world.

Do you think he knows what that is?

So many of them don’t live there at all.

And in that world, this one, we’re in the history books for this campaign.

In those his own lauded treble winning team didn’t quite get there. Four defeats and five draws. They never reached their European Final either; teams don’t get there on the back of four draws and two wins in a six game group. You have to do a little bit better than that.

Articles like that might keep The Peepul happy, but then so do the lies of Dave King and the delusions of “going for 55.”

You know what they keep us in?

Good times.

Good humour.

Entertainment.

Because the pain seeps out of those articles.

The envy cannot be disguised in them.

And it’s that, and so many happy memories, that keeps us all warm at night when the lights are out.

Glasgow’s Green And White!

In Brendan We Trust!

Viva The Invincibles of 2017!

Or to put it another way, “GIRFUY!”

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